Over two decades ago, while Wheel of Time, still unfinished, was fairly popular in fantasy lit circles, a video game adaptation was made, for PC only.
It was a first-person shooter. You played an Aes Sedai (a non-canon character invented for the game, IIRC) who fought Darkfriend/enemies with various weaves (spells). From memory, she was weak in the One Power and needed ter'angreal (artefacts) to channel meaningfully, probably an excuse for the variety of gameplay/weapons or something like that.
At the time I played it, circa 2000 or so, I was not into PC gaming at all. I was primarily a console gamer. I was complete rubbish at FPS even on console, tried Doom or Powerslave on PS1 and Saturn and didn't get very far. But I was more or less into WoT at the time (I'm not anymore, lol, the books are kind of rubbish let's be real, but that's for another topic), and I wanted to try this game. My boyfriend was a PC gamer and helped me set it up, but... of course, no controller support, and my attempts at playing mouse/kb didn't go very far, so I just gave up on it. (I later got back into PC gaming for real, and I do play FPS and have for a few years now, though still with a controller, don't judge me, I will forever hate m/kb and you can't change my mind here)
Now two decades later I do wonder what happened to that game. It seems the game was a commercial failure and the developer, Legend Entertainment, sadly went defunct a few years later though I'm not sure if it's really related. It was never ported to modern digital PC platforms like Steam or even GOG. I assume there are copyright/IP-related reasons for that, since it's an adaptation of an existing IP, the dev is defunct, and the publisher of the time seems to have gotten absorbed into Atari or something (someone correct me if I got that wrong).
So while I never played much of the game myself, I was wondering if others did. Was it fun? Was the story/lore any good with regards to the source material? Did it age moderately well or does it not hold up at all? Etc. Digging on Google images I found some screenshots which look pretty good for an obscure-as-fuck 1999 game IMO:
It was a first-person shooter. You played an Aes Sedai (a non-canon character invented for the game, IIRC) who fought Darkfriend/enemies with various weaves (spells). From memory, she was weak in the One Power and needed ter'angreal (artefacts) to channel meaningfully, probably an excuse for the variety of gameplay/weapons or something like that.
At the time I played it, circa 2000 or so, I was not into PC gaming at all. I was primarily a console gamer. I was complete rubbish at FPS even on console, tried Doom or Powerslave on PS1 and Saturn and didn't get very far. But I was more or less into WoT at the time (I'm not anymore, lol, the books are kind of rubbish let's be real, but that's for another topic), and I wanted to try this game. My boyfriend was a PC gamer and helped me set it up, but... of course, no controller support, and my attempts at playing mouse/kb didn't go very far, so I just gave up on it. (I later got back into PC gaming for real, and I do play FPS and have for a few years now, though still with a controller, don't judge me, I will forever hate m/kb and you can't change my mind here)
Now two decades later I do wonder what happened to that game. It seems the game was a commercial failure and the developer, Legend Entertainment, sadly went defunct a few years later though I'm not sure if it's really related. It was never ported to modern digital PC platforms like Steam or even GOG. I assume there are copyright/IP-related reasons for that, since it's an adaptation of an existing IP, the dev is defunct, and the publisher of the time seems to have gotten absorbed into Atari or something (someone correct me if I got that wrong).
So while I never played much of the game myself, I was wondering if others did. Was it fun? Was the story/lore any good with regards to the source material? Did it age moderately well or does it not hold up at all? Etc. Digging on Google images I found some screenshots which look pretty good for an obscure-as-fuck 1999 game IMO:
